Compiling Rust to WASI

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by ingve • 2 years ago

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spintin• 2 years ago

Seems to me Rust + WASM is just a recreation of the Java Applet outside of Oracles control.

I guess they forgot Java is Open-Source and anyone can make a Applet plugin if they wish.

The main reason that is not happening is that the browser is dead.

saurik• 2 years ago

The core use cases of WASI have nothing to do with browsers. Yes, though: Java itself--without applets--also solves mostly the same problem.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF• 2 years ago

I prefer WASM to the JVM

kennu• 2 years ago

I think the main difference between WASM and JVM is that WASM was designed as a generic compilation target for all kinds of existing languages like C or Swift, while JVM is designed to specifically run Java bytecode with the features that Java-based languages support.

Rucadi• 2 years ago

There idea that we could write programs in our own favorite language, and compile it to a universal format that can executed on almost any platform is truly revolutionary.

Where do I begin with this...

I Think Rust+WASI is cool, but this idea has more years than I do.

Compiling Rust to WASI

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